Today every ethnicity and nation can be thought of ... As a result, they decided to rebel against the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire in an attempt to create their own Israelite state.

A short teeter down the steep incline of the Clivo di Scauro — a Roman street spanned by medieval arches — landed us at the new Museo della Forma Urbis, which showcases a huge marble city map ...

IS and the crisis in Iraq and Syria in maps Neighbouring ... but on ethnicity and cultural heritage. Overlooking the Afrin River, within sight of the Turkish border, sprawl the vast Roman ruins ...

In a census last spring, 93 percent of the population professed itself Muslim and only 1.75 percent Roman ... Empire brought Islam, question the thinking behind the movement. Image Ethnic Albanian ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

Arctic ice cores uncover how Roman lead pollution led to widespread IQ declines over 2,000 years ago, revealing impacts on ...

A new study turned to Arctic ice core records between 500 BCE through 600 CE to find a link between lead pollution and ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to ...

Mining and smelting minerals like iron represented technological highs at the Roman Empire’s peak. But those activities also produced enough lead pollution to impair its citizens’ IQs, according to a ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also ... were used to map the general changes in the ...

The British-Nigerian boxer and two-time world heavyweight champion, Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, is not playing the ethnic card like Badenoch; he insists that he is proudly Nigerian and shows ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate ... were used to map the general changes in the size and number ...